Climate change isn’t the threat its believers make it out to be. According to Mark Levin, it’s actually “a religion going back hundreds of thousands of years” in which followers “pray to the weather gods.” “The idea that we have any effect on this massive planet is a lie,” he adds. Not to me.
Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like global warming is caused by the sun , temperature has changed naturally in the past or other planets are warming too are examined to see what the science really says.
Talks and Presentations - 2011 to 2016
List of talks 2011 to 2016
12 December 2016: AGU Fall Meeting
John Cook presented a talk A Brief of History of Consensus (PPT 6.8Mb), outlining the misinformation campaign against consensus, the studies quantifying the level of scientific agreement and how to neutralise misinformation.
28 October 2016: Conference on climate denial
The world s first research conference on climate denial was held at Linköping University, in the city of Norrköping, Sweden. I recorded a video talk for this conference (here are the Powerpoint slides for this talk).
27 June 2016: Royal Society of Tasmania Winter Series lecture
At the University of Tasmania, John Cook presented the 2016 Royal Society of Tasmania Winter Series lecture on The psychology of climate science denial , chaired by Her Excellency Kate Warner, Governor of Tasmania.